Anon 01/24/2018 (Wed) 23:03:55 No.556 del
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>My personal theory on that is because the MLP fandom was fully centered on the "hip" tumblr crowd or the Youtube kids.While most of those other fandoms are usually one, if not both of those groups to some extend espically in the case of Undertale.

It's hard for me to tell between those who are exclusive to Youtube,Tumblr or inclusive to both. Undertale definitely had its fanbase from Tumblr and it shows its dependance on the site. The sudden downfall pretty much explains their organization in the internet.

>Sure, always has been some people in these groups who got involved with MLP, but MLP was first and foremost a product of chan culture that had more ties to a pre social media internet paradigm.Not to mention having a presence in a lot more off the wall non mainstream places Not being based entirely on social media gave us an edge, as their is a larger group people who stuck with it past it's time in the limelight. Plus, culture wise we are a bit diffirent from those fandoms. It gave us a degree of cultural immunization, as to get fully invested in this fandom often means joining a community off from the main social media sites. Even the most reddit level MLP sites are influenced by chan culture to an extent.Perhaps I'm over thinking it.

That's undeniable. Everything began in /co/ and /b/. After that, it got expansive and the chan culture basically took all the protagonism in that explosion. The derivative sites or fans always admit on the inside where they are from. Like FiM is a toy commercial, the fandom soul comes from an imageboard site.

You've basically described it. Social media in reality are an addition. The heart of this fandom comes from random anonymous users that cannot post this on their Facebook profiles but want to share it somewhere else and express their emotions about the franchise. An immune way of posting your personal wet dreams and headcanons or related stories without consequences of looking like a weirdo in the real life.